Taani hasn't left the farm (by way of floating) in about 5 years. She has a show in two weeks, so we thought we better see how she is considering she was always trouble to get on in the past.
I bought her and Amy out of the paddock cause i wanted to see how they float together, since Amy can get a bit bossy. We tied Amy up and led Taani up to the float, after a few hesitant steps she wandered in no problem! So we kept her there for a few seconds then backed her off and booted her up with her floating boots.
Then we tried to put her back on. Well she was giving us one chance and that was it! It must've taken us about a hour to get her back on we tried guiding ropes, a tickly dressage whip, and a tasty bucket of feed. In the end she went on without any props just me at the front and nick straightening her up from behind. So 2 to us, 0 to Taani. :)
We then put Amy on beside her, she decided to fluff around today the little tart and wouldn't go on without some coaxing from Nick behind her.
We took them for a drive around the valley and they both behaved beautifully and stood nice and patiently to back off and did that like proper ladies, so all in all a successful day and they got to relax in their paddock afterwards with a nice bucket of feed each.
Next weekend is the last QEII training day, which looks to be a mini boardie get together, and the saturday after that Taani and Amy will be heading out to Western Hills Spring Show for Taani's first Show in ages her and Jessie will be doing some flat classes while me and Amy do a nice ring two day of showjumping for the start of the season.
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